Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The six women who originated their iconic roles in Broadway's 'Beauty and the ...

For 60 years, generations of families have had spoonfuls of sugar, dancing penguins and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious delightfully woven into their lives, thanks ...

Author P.L. Travers was notoriously wary of signing over the rights to her famous children’s character, Mary Poppins, to Walt Disney. In fact, an entire movie—2013’s Saving Mr. Banks—was made about ...

2.After working on adapting the book for two years, P.L. Travers came to Disney Studios and apparently "didn't like anything" that was written. In recordings and sketches from a 1961 meeting, Travers ...

Many Disney fans are still in mourning for composer Richard M. Sherman, who died May 25 at age 95. He and his brother Robert created dozens of classic movie songs, including the Oscar-winning “Chim ...

This reboot comes 25 years after the original. There are some familiar characters in "Mary Poppins Returns." Almost all will take on new roles and cameos. The 1964 movie-musical "Mary Poppins" has ...

In an op-ed from The New York Times, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, an English professor at Linfield College, argues that the story has some troubling, racist tones that, while originate in the original ...

“Mary Poppins Returns,” which picked up four Oscar nominations last week, is an enjoyably derivative film that seeks to inspire our nostalgia for the innocent fantasies of childhood, as well as the ...